Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

One who achieves through struggle has a far good taste of happiness than who gains at once.

Hiking is like life...You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.And then you miss all this.

Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.

That's still a mystery but people think that Seungri has a lot of stories, is interesting and special.